Every evil thought generates in the heart. Every action generates in the heart. And you cannot say that you do not sometimes think evil thoughts and
you cannot say that every action is good.

But that's your moral relativism, I suppose.

The standard of good or evil is formulated only in your mind, therefore, you might be evil and think you are good. I don't know, but just because you
say you are good, doesn't mean that you are good.

The heart of man is wicked above all else, who can understand it.

Thoughts are generated in the heart? Alert your surgeon! Bunk like this alternates between being humorous and pathetic.

Are you so completely materialistic that you think that is what it means? The heart in the Bible does not mean physical heart and you know better than
that argument you just made.

What is Tangerine? Is Tangerine orange or is Tangerine just the color of the light absorbed? The sky isn't blue, contrary to popular opinion, it just
appears blue, the same way orange is different hues, depending upon the light.

Reason isn't necessarily a matter of intellect, because you subconsciously arrive at conclusions based on physical observations, of which can be
misleading. Did you really think the heart meant the physical or were you just yanking a chain, hoping someone might agree with you and give you a
star?

Those stars are misleading as well, they don't mean you are right, only that someone agrees with you.

Yeah, I get angry at times but who hasn't? Even Jesus got mad enough to flip tables, he even spoke badly about the Pharisees calling them a brood of
vipers. Everyone gets mad, even Jesus, the point is not to act on those negative emotions. You can be angry with someone and still love them and not
harm them.

I treat others as I would want to be treated and love them as myself, I love God as well. I have kept Jesus' commandments so I remain in he and his
Father's love. I forgive others like Jesus told me to so I am forgiven by his Father, just as he says.

I am a good person. Do you really believe in your heart that you are wicked? That you are not good in any way? I'm sorry you feel that way, but I
know you are a good person, so do your friends and family.

Yeah, I get angry at times but who hasn't? Even Jesus got mad enough to flip tables, he even spoke badly about the Pharisees calling them a brood of
vipers. Everyone gets mad, even Jesus, the point is not to act on those negative emotions. You can be angry with someone and still love them and not
harm them.

I treat others as I would want to be treated and love them as myself, I love God as well. I have kept Jesus' commandments so I remain in he and his
Father's love. I forgive others like Jesus told me to so I am forgiven by his Father, just as he says.

I am a good person. Do you really believe in your heart that you are wicked? That you are not good in any way? I'm sorry you feel that way, but I
know you are a good person, so do your friends and family.

You know that we are allowed to get angry, as long as in our anger we don't do something harmful to someone else, except for some prevailing
circumstances like if someone were attacking an innocent victim. We are allowed to defend in that situation.

But, you know that anger isn't the problem, it is how we think to act.

I am not so egotistical to think my heart is right or good, I constantly have to check myself or let God check me, which He does much better than I
do. But you know very well that you are capable of doing wrong and bad things, that is what the verse means, that mankind is so capable of doing bad,
because the heart of man is wicked.

I am just as capable as you to do something not right. If you say you are not capable, then you aren't accepting your own human nature, which is not
good by any means. Without that moral standard, without that help from the Holy Spirit, without that divine intervention, we would remain savages.

Every evil thought generates in the heart. Every action generates in the heart. And you cannot say that you do not sometimes think evil thoughts and
you cannot say that every action is good.

But that's your moral relativism, I suppose.

The standard of good or evil is formulated only in your mind, therefore, you might be evil and think you are good. I don't know, but just because you
say you are good, doesn't mean that you are good.

The heart of man is wicked above all else, who can understand it.

Thoughts are generated in the heart? Alert your surgeon! Bunk like this alternates between being humorous and pathetic.

Are you so completely materialistic that you think that is what it means? The heart in the Bible does not mean physical heart and you know better than
that argument you just made.
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Those stars are misleading as well, they don't mean you are right, only that someone agrees with you.

The heart in the Bible does not mean physical heart. OK. And God and Jesus are not to be taken literally, too. Do we agree?

Yeah, I get angry at times but who hasn't? Even Jesus got mad enough to flip tables, he even spoke badly about the Pharisees calling them a brood of
vipers. Everyone gets mad, even Jesus, the point is not to act on those negative emotions. You can be angry with someone and still love them and not
harm them.

It's a STORY, like the Three Little Pigs, except that pigs actually exist.

Yeah, I get angry at times but who hasn't? Even Jesus got mad enough to flip tables, he even spoke badly about the Pharisees calling them a brood of
vipers. Everyone gets mad, even Jesus, the point is not to act on those negative emotions. You can be angry with someone and still love them and not
harm them.

It's a STORY, like the Three Little Pigs, except that pigs actually exist.

Are you the Big Bad Wolf who wants to huff and puff and blow our houses down?

Can you tell me exactly why you want to think it is simply a story? What comfort does it bring you to think it is just a story?

Brick houses exist also, maybe if you blow hard enough you just might make it fall...nah, brick houses have foundations.

Every evil thought generates in the heart. Every action generates in the heart. And you cannot say that you do not sometimes think evil thoughts and
you cannot say that every action is good.

But that's your moral relativism, I suppose.

The standard of good or evil is formulated only in your mind, therefore, you might be evil and think you are good. I don't know, but just because you
say you are good, doesn't mean that you are good.

The heart of man is wicked above all else, who can understand it.

Thoughts are generated in the heart? Alert your surgeon! Bunk like this alternates between being humorous and pathetic.

Are you so completely materialistic that you think that is what it means? The heart in the Bible does not mean physical heart and you know better than
that argument you just made.
.....
Those stars are misleading as well, they don't mean you are right, only that someone agrees with you.

The heart in the Bible does not mean physical heart. OK. And God and Jesus are not to be taken literally, too. Do we agree?

I don't pay any attention to awarded stars. Interesting that you do.

Let me ask this, since you are so materialistic, did the world exist before you were born?

You can only judge the world by what you experience of it, so can you trust that the world existed before you?

Because my brain has evolved to the point of knowing good and evil. I am no longer indifferent like most animals, I know the difference and I have the
ability to act on my thoughts, whether good or bad. I choose to act on the good and not the bad.

Genesis 3
22 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take
also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.

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